“Alien Life”
by Liz Bennefeld
They live among us,
only slightly alien—
their DNA so close
that some of them can breed
with some of us.
A cross-section of each
is close enough
to be the other.
And so, then, who is alien,
after all? You? I?
I won’t tell,
if you don’t.
– Elizabeth Bennefeld, 2 Nov. 2009. Audio edition published in the 2010 SFPA Online Halloween Poetry Reading.
Quilted Poetry 
That’s an intriguing piece of existential alienation and at the same time a desire for communion…
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